Closing presentation around #MassActionDays in Chicago with Mikva Challenge, Free Spirit Media, and Adler Planetarium

1. Taking Civic Action in
Mass Fashion
August 8, 2014
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2. Hi.
Dan O’Neil, Sonja Marziano,
Christopher Whitaker, Josh Kalov,
and Mohammad Ouyoun
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3. A few things
• The power of mass action
• Online tools and methods for mass action
• Online tools for offline mass action
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4. We do civic tech
• Open data
• Lightweight technology
• Fail fast
• Test things
• Listen to people
• Make things
• Have fun
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6. The power of mass action
• Komen for the Cure/ Planned Parenthood
• SOPA/PIPA
• Texas filibuster – Wendy Davis
• “No deals!”
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey
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8. Planned Parenthood v. Casey
"Where, in the performance of its judicial duties,
the Court decides a case in such a way as to
resolve the sort of intensely divisive controversy
reflected in Roe and those rare, comparable
cases, its decision has a dimension that the
resolution of the normal case does not carry. It is
the dimension present whenever the Court's
interpretation of the Constitution calls the
contending sides of a national controversy to end
their national division by accepting a common
mandate rooted in the Constitution."
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9. Stare decisis
Courts should generally
abide by precedent and not
disturb settled matters.
The court had decided in Roe
v. Wade and that was that,
according to all.
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10. No mass action
w/o mass agreement
• Deciding on what should be a settled
matter
• It makes all the difference in the world
• We learned, in part, how to do that
• Last week, in considering Beyond Scared
Straight as a policy
• You should feel proud that you have these
skills by being a part of this here, today
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11. At your table ahora
• Take five minutes
• Come up with something about which you
are completely resolved
• Can be anything
• But there has to be complete agreement–
what is, in the opinion of the table, a
settled matter
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12. We have to know each other
so that we can resolve.
@danxoneil
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13. Tribune boundary app
• http://boundaries.tribapps.com/
• Once you decide what action to take, you
have to know who to take action upon
• If you live in the city, this app will tell you
who represents you in all of the various
units of government to which you belong
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14. Great tool
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15. Gimme some addresses
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16. The humble service request
• A simple form of
action
• Let’s practice
• http://www.cityofchica
go.org/city/en/depts/3
11/supp_info/request_
service.html
• Or just call 311 from
yer phone
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17. All sorts of things you can report
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18. What about if you’re done with the
existing processes?
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19. btw I took that picture
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20. Have a parade!
• All protests are covered under the “10-8-
330 Parade, public assembly or athletic
event” section of the municipal code
• Here’s a list of 529 permits:
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Events/PAR
ADES-/dbxi-w2tt
• Though it seems out of date (2012 Toys for
Tots is the most recent)
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21. So we took action on that
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22. Back to the protest permit
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23. Fill it out
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24. Or just go outside
• One of the deep dark secrets of
government leadership is that there is very
little they can do to stop that from
happening
• Settled matters win
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25. Or just go outside
• When a set of people decide on settled
matters, the power is really
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